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It seems to me that, apart from writers of genre fiction, there aren't that many people who have published as many as ten books. Which makes the meme rather dull.

Date: 2005-03-04 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
What is the meme?

I can think of *loads* of more-than-ten-published-books writers that cannot be classed as 'genre', and I am half dead with lurgy and have a non-working brane.

Date: 2005-03-04 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
The meme is "authors I have read ten books by". Enlighten me on the list. A quick whizz around the book shelves for inspiration came up with quite a short list:

Anthony Powell
CP Snow
Orwell (I think)
Peter Ackroyd
Andre Gide (I think)
Emile Zola

Prove me wrong!

And get well soon!

Date: 2005-03-04 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
Right-o. Done without looking at the shelves because standing up is problematic,

Daphne de Maurier
Graham Greene
Mangaret Atwood
Angela Carter
Anthony Trollope
Carl Hiaasen
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Stephen King
Thomas Hardy
Muriel Spark
Saul Bellow
Sarah Paretsky
Nina Bawden
John Irving
John Updike

And if I include children's writers....

Enid Blyton
Elinor Brent-Dyer
Arthur Ransome
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Robert Westall
Joan Aiken
Cynthia Voigt

And I reckon that's double-able based entirely on the contents of my bookshelves, if I could see them.


Date: 2005-03-04 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
I didn't realise DduM had written that many books. The others (at least the ones I have heard of) I would probably have got to eventually.

I guess Dickens and Scott would be in there too.

Date: 2005-03-05 03:52 am (UTC)
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And there's always Iris Murdoch...

Others on my shelf who've published more than 10:
Ian McEwan
A. S. Byatt
Salman Rushdie
Russell Hoban

and Frank Moorhouse, although at least 6 of his books are short story collections (but often written around a theme or a cast of reoccurring characters).

Date: 2005-03-04 09:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com
I did this before and it was a really long list that I kept adding to! There were some really unexpected authors on it.

Date: 2005-03-04 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
Oh well, apparently I've been wrong all day so why not keep the streak going?

Date: 2005-03-05 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com
I wonder if there's any author I've read ten books by. Edward Gorey possibly but, those are very small.If a single play counts as a book there's Shakespeare. If a single Canterbury Tale counted I could say Chaucer but, generally I get bored of even my favourite literary fiction writers before I hit ten books. I definitely haven't followed any genre series that long yet. Can't think of a nonfiction writer I read ten books by either...hmmm

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